Re: n_ins_since_vacuum stats for aborted transactions

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: n_ins_since_vacuum stats for aborted transactions
Date: 2025-04-09 20:30:24
Message-ID: CAA5RZ0uDyGW1omWqWkxyW8NB1qzsKmXhnoMtzTBeRzSd4DMatQ@mail.gmail.com
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>> What I am saying is n_ins_since_vacuum should not account for aborted inserts.
>
> It does and from what I can see it should. You need to explain why it should not. More importantly, convincingly enough to change five year old behavior.

n_ins_since_vacuum was introduced to trigger autovacuum based on the #
of inserts
committed, and does not care about about dead tuples in this formula.

If I have a transaction that rolledback an insert of a million rows,
I expect autovacuum to kick in based on the fact there are now 1 million
n_dead_tup. n_ins_since_vacuumm is not relevant to the formula
for this case.

In other words, the reason n_ins_since_vacuum was introduced is to freeze
(committed) rows, so it should not need to track dead rows to do what it intends
to do.

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Sami Imseih

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